Arts and Sciences at Rutgers

An Exhilarating Experience!

As a student in the School of Arts and Sciences, you'll be at the center of undergraduate education at Rutgers. Our faculty and programs provide the scope and vision to help you discover your life’s mission.

We are home to poets, philosophers, mathematicians, and neuroscientists; experts in climate change, women’s history, and exercise science; scholars of the Middle East, Africa, and the Caribbean, and experts in more than two dozen world languages.

Graduates of the Arts and Sciences at Rutgers have left their mark on the world. Some have done so quietly. Some in spectacular fashion.

They range from actor, singer, and civil rights activist Paul Robeson to Ella Watson-Stryker, one of the Ebola fighters named Person of the Year by Time magazine, and from Nobel-laureate economist Milton Friedman to Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Junot Díaz to the Ford Motor Company CEO Mark Fields.

Now—it’s your turn.

The School of Arts and Sciences at Rutgers has multiple opportunities for you:

More than 100 majors and minors in life sciences, physical and mathematical sciences, humanities, and social and behavioral sciences

Signature Courses led by award-winning faculty in state-of the-art lecture halls exploring questions of enduring importance and new challenges of the 21st century to create a common basis for intellectual exchange outside the classroom

Opportunities for joint degrees with other Rutgers undergraduate, graduate, and professional programs

The choice to live on any of five residential campuses, including the only women's residential college in the nation, and for off-campus students to affiliate with the activities of the campus of their choice